Editing to the beat

In iMovie '11, you can synchronize your video clips, photos, and titles to…specific points in your audio tracks.…This makes it super-easy to edit your video to music, or to make sure a cut…happens exactly when a music cue or sound effect occurs. And you accomplish this…by adding beat markers.…As an example, let me show you how you can quickly create a photo slideshow set to music.…Let's create a new empty project first, so I will choose File > New Project.…I will choose no theme.…I will call it Snap to Beat, set to Widescreen, 24 frames per second, and I will click Create.…

Now, let's look for some music.…I am going to go to my Music pane, and I have Jingles selected in the iLife Sound…Effects folder, and again, we can just sample some music here.…(music playing)…Okay, we will go with that one.…Now this is going to be my background music, so I will just simply drag it…into my Project pane.…So now that I have an audio clip in my project, let's add the beat markers.…I am going to click the audio clip's Action menu and choose Clip Trimmer, and now…